Aphorisms



Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

-- Mark Twain

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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always... Malcolm Forbes 3.4
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can... Hermann Hesse 3.3
Knowledge is power. Sir Francis Bacon 3.3
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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. Ethel Mumford 2.9
Knowledge is power. Sir Francis Bacon 3.3
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not... Sophocles 3.0
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Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. Friedrich von Schiller 3
Know the right moment. Pittacus 3
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for... Baltasar Gracian 3
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Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est) Sir Francis Bacon 3.0
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson 3.0
Keen at the start, but careless at the end. Cornelius Tacitus 3.0